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The Jamar Clark shooting: Where it stands

Updated: June 1, 2016 | Posted: Nov. 19, 2015

Jamar Clark, 24, was shot by an officer after a confrontation in north Minneapolis Nov. 15, 2015 after officers reportedly tried to stop him from interfering with a paramedic crew treating a woman initially identified as his girlfriend outside a late-night party; he died the following day. The responding officers believed the woman was an assault victim and that Clark was a suspect.

The woman injured the night of the shooting speaks

The demand for a new probe came as the woman who was injured the night Clark was shot by police said she was not Clark's girlfriend, that he never hit her that night and that the prosecutor's narrative that justified Clark's shooting by Minneapolis police was fabricated.

RayAnn Hayes' comments were a rebuke to the report by Freeman who declined to press charges against the two officers involved in the shooting after concluding their use of force against Clark was justified.

Differing accounts about what happened

However, some who said they saw the shooting said Clark was handcuffed.

During the March 30 news conference explaining his decision, Freeman said the two officers testified they were unable to handcuff him, and that the witnesses who said Clark was handcuffed gave differing accounts.

Freeman says physical exams found no evidence of bruising on Clark's wrists consistent with being handcuffed. He also said traces of Clark's DNA found on the grip of one officer's gun supported the contention that he was not handcuffed.

Who are the officers involved?

BCA investigators interviewed Minneapolis police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze about their roles in the fatal shooting. At the time of the incident, both were seven-year police veterans with 13 months on the Minneapolis force.

Officer Mark RinggenbergCourtesy of San Diego Police Department

A records summary released by the Minneapolis Police Department shows no complaints lodged through the department's internal affairs unit against Ringgenberg.

He previously worked as police officer in Maple Grove and San Diego.

In 2012, Ringgenberg and another San Diego officer were accused of excessive force. A New Jersey man said Ringgenberg had grabbed him from behind and held him a choke hold. The man's federal civil rights lawsuit was settled.

Schwarze worked as an officer in Richfield between 2008 and 2014.

During his time in Richfield, Schwarze was involved in an alleged incident that became the basis for a lawsuit accusing him of excessive force. The lawsuit was filed less than two weeks before Clark's death.

In Minneapolis, according to a records release from the Minneapolis Police Department, Schwarze has one open internal affairs query and one case listed as closed with no discipline against him.

State Patrol officers and Black Lives Matter protesters showed a battle of wills Monday night as the demonstrators blocked I-94 westbound in Minneapolis for several hours and refused to leave. Many were eventually arrested.Judy Griesedieck for MPR News

Authorities ultimately arrested 42 people for the I-94 shutdown.

On Nov. 18, a gathering of hundreds of protesters at the 4th Precinct grew tense after police cleared the entrance of the station where some had camped since Clark was shot by police.

Police said they had to move protesters who were blocking the precinct's entrance to the public. Inspector Mike Friestleben said at least 10 people had been camping there and when officers went to talk to them about leaving, the crowd got angry.

"People started throwing stuff at us right away," he said. "We never even got a chance to talk to them."

But Shvonne Johnson, a St. Catherine University instructor who was there with college students, said officers didn't give them a chance to leave.

"They were charging us," she said. "People were trying to get past, to do what they asked us to do, but they came at us with force."